Chapter 5
California Policy — NEM 3.0 in Depth
Start reading from section 1 →Sections in this chapter
- Background: NEM 3.0 = NBT (Net Billing Tariff)
- 5.1 The evolution from NEM 1.0 to 2.0 to 3.0
- 5.2 What actually changed under NEM 3.0
- 5.3 Four design rules under NEM 3.0
- 5.4 What "saving money" actually looks like under NEM 3.0
- 5.5 Charging by "production" is the biggest scam of the NEM 3.0 era
- 5.6 "Annual production" can be a trap under NEM 3.0
- 5.7 Why Non-export (don't sell back at all) can be the smarter choice
- 5.8 How to upgrade a legacy NEM 1.0 / 2.0 system without losing grandfathering
- 5.9 Areas of California not on NEM 3.0
- 5.10 Pick the right rate plan: free, and it can cut tens to hundreds a month
- 5.11 With a battery, arbitrage time-of-use rates (SDG&E EV-TOU)